Patrick Scott

Professor of English and Director of Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library

Office: TCL Rare Books, (803)-777-1275;

and 218 Humanities Office Building, (803) 777-2082
scottp@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, 1976

Specialization Areas

• Victorian literature and culture,
• Bibliography and history of the book,
• Scottish literature

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 412  (Honors) Victorian Literature
• SCCC 452I  Proseminar: The Great War in Literature
• SLIS 716 [=ENGL 776]   Intro. to Descriptive Bibliography & Textual Criticism 
• SLIS 797B  Introduction to Special Collections Librarianship

Current Research Project(s)

Edition of James Hogg, Memoir of Robert Burns; essays on Tennyson's poetry and Lincolnshire; conferences at University of South Carolina on: Disrupting Victorian Studies (Victorians Institute, October 3-4, 2007) and on Burns (250th Anniversary; April 2-4, 2009).

Recent Publications:

• "About this Book and Its Author," in William North, The City of the Jugglers; or, Free-Trade in Souls (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008).

• "Body-building and Empire-building: George Douglas Brown, the South African War, and Sandow's Magazine of Physical Culture," in Victorian Periodicals Review, 41:1 (Spring 2008): 78-94.
• Intro.: Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson (New York etc: Signet Classics/Penguin-New AmericanLibrary, 2008).
• "The Imprint he has made: Duncan Glen and Akros in South Carolina," in A Festschrift for Duncan Glen, ed. Hubbard and Pacey (Kirkcaldy: Craigarter Press, 2008): 69-75.
• Textual ed.: Amours de Voyage, by Arthur Hugh Clough (Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 2007): fine press limited edition with woodcuts by Abigail Rorer.
  
• "Audubon's Birds of America," in Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections, ed. Cronenwett, Osborn, and Streit (Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, 2007): 218-219, 298.
• Review of Paul Shrimpton, A Catholic Eton: Newman's Oratory School, in Victorian Studies, 50:1(Autumn 2007): 108-110.
• "Tennyson's In Memoriam, Section 123, and the Submarine Forest on the Lincolnshire Coast," Victorian Newsletter, 110 (Fall 2006): 28-30.
• "Clough, Bankruptcy, and Disbelief: The Economic Background to 'Blank Misgivings',"  Victorian Poetry, 44:2 (Summer 2006): 123-134.
• “K. J. Fielding," George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, 48-49 (September 2005): 144-147.
• “David Miller, 1948-2005," Apostrophe (Winter 2005/Spring 2006): 58-60.
• “Scottish Studies in English and Scots [review article]," Scottish Studies Review, 6:1 (May 2005): 113-117. 

Recent Library Exhibits:

• Naturalists in South Carolina: Audubon in Context (Upcountry History Museum, April-September 2008)
• Darwin's Sources, from his Historical Sketch (April 2008)
• The World War I Letters of Samuel Bloom (April 2008)
  --http://sc.edu/library/digital/collections/bloom.html
• Fitzgerald and Hollywood (October-December 2007)
• Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, 1773 (September 2007)
  --http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/wheatley/wheatleyp.html
• Voices of the Great War (July-September 2007)
• Celebrating James Dickey (Jan-April 2007)
• Introducing the Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of John Milton (Sept.-Oct. 2006)
  --http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/milton/06497_Milton%20booklet.pdf

Earlier separate publications include:

• Tennyson’s Enoch Arden (Tennyson Society, 1970);
  
• Victorian Poetry, 1830-1870 (Longmans, 1971);
  
• ed. Amours de Voyage by A. H. Clough (U. of Queensland Press, 1974);
  
• ed. The Bothie by A. H. Clough (UQP, 1974);
  
• Early Editions of Arthur Hugh Clough (Garland, 1977);
  
• ed. Culture & Education in Victorian England (Bucknell UP, 1990);
  
• assoc. ed., Language and Literature of Early Scotland (1991);
• A Checklist of James Hogg Scholarship since 1960 (1992);

Earlier articles by subject area and journal:

• 1. Victorian: articles in Victorian Poetry, Victorian Studies, Nineteenth Century Fiction, Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorians Institute Journal, Victorian Newsletter, Tennyson Research Bulletin, Browning Institute Studies, Church Quarterly, Studies in Ecclesiastical History;
• 2. Bibliography and textual studies: articles in The Library, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Studies in Bibliography, Book Collector, Harvard Library Bulletin, The Bibliotheck, Notes & Queries, Literary Research Newsletter, Documentary Editing;
• 3. Scottish Literature: articles in Studies in Scottish Literature, Scottish Literary Journal, The Bibliotheck, Cencrastus.
• 4. History of rhetoric, history of English studies, teaching of writing: articles in William & Mary Quarterly, University of Edinburgh Journal, South Carolina Historical Magazine, Postscript, College English, College Composition & Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Journal of English Teaching Techniques;
• 5. Historical Children's Literature: British Journal of Educational Studies, History of Education Society Newsletter, Proceedings of the Children's Literature Association, and The Victorian Public School, ed. Simon and Bradley;
• 6. African Literature: Research in African Literatures, Bulletin of the Southern Association of Africanists, History of African Literatures in European Languages, ed. Geuerard, and When the Drumbeat Changes, ed. Parker and Arnold.

Earlier library exhibit catalogues:

• Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892 (1992);
• Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1882 (1995);
• The Great War (1998);
• The Biographical Part of Literature (1998);
• John Milton & Seventeenth-Century Literature (2000);
• Heart of a Great University: 200 Years of USC Libraries (2001);
• Hemingway & the Thirties (2001);
• The Joseph Heller Papers (2003).